Game of Thrones: HBO May Have Confirmed These Two Characters Survived the Season 7 Finale

Not dead yet?

By Alex Gilyadov

After Game of Thrones left fans with one major cliffhanger regarding two characters' fates in the Season 7 finale, "The Dragon and the Wolf," HBO may have inadvertently confirmed that those characters did, in fact, survive to make it to Season 8.

One of the last scenes in the Season 7 finale feature Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) and Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer) atop The Wall while it was being destroyed by the Night King and the White Walker-ified Viserion. Up until now, it wasn't made clear if Tormund and Beric had made it out unscathed.

Now fans can go to the source to try to puzzle it out for themselves. As part of submitting various episodes for Emmy Awards consideration, HBO has submitted the Season 7 finale screenplay and anyone can view it online. While the script doesn't specifically state the two fan-favorite characters are still alive, it does suggest Tormund and Beric escaped Castle Black just in time.

The finale script reads as follows:

“Tormund and Beric lead their wildling comrades to the stairs carved in the ice — Eastwatch has a massive zig-zag stairway, not an elevator like Castle Black. They run for their lives and disappear from view.”

That is an apt summary of what happened in the episode, but left out the traumatic destruction of the Eastwatch's portion of the Wall and suggestion of both of their deaths that made their way into the finished cut of "The Dragon and the Wolf."